Os Jesuítas nas Américas: "A República dos Guaranis"

[POR] Para este trabalho, elegemos um estudo sobre uma «experiência jesuíta» junto dos Guaranis, que designamos por «A República dos Guaranis». Trata-se de um processo histórico complexo que teve início no século XVII, sob o impacto da Contra-Reforma, e que terminou em pleno século XVIII, quando o Absolutismo, o Racionalismo e a Lei Natural dominavam a Europa. Este trabalho procura compreender como esta realidade sociocultural se relacionou com uma das regiões do Brasil colonial. [EN] This study analyzes a «Jesuit experience» with the Guarani people, also known as the «Guarani’s Republic». The latter is a complex historical venture which began in the 17th century, in the wake of the Counter-Reformation (1545-1648), and ended in the 18th century when Absolutism, Rationalism, and Natural Law dominated Europe. Our aim is thus that of analyzing how this socio-cultural reality was tied with one region of Colonial Brazil (1500-1822).

Morphological and molecular characterization of a new species of Atlantic stalked barnacle (Scalpelliformes: Pollicipedidae) from the Cape Verde Islands

[EN] The taxonomy of pedunculate cirripedes belonging to the genus Pollicipes has essentially remained unchanged since Charles Darwin described them in his exhaustive work on the Cirripedia. This genus includes three species of stalked barnacles: Pollicipes pollicipes in the north-eastern Atlantic, P. polymerus in the north-eastern Pacific and P. elegans in the central-eastern Pacific. However, a population genetics analysis of P. pollicipes suggested the presence of a putative cryptic species collected from the Cape Verde Islands in the central-eastern Atlantic. This study examines the morphology of these genetically divergent specimens and compares them with that of representative Atlantic samples of the biogeographically closely related P. pollicipes and with the poorly described P. elegans.